Re: Games? The First Sign of Program Categories?

I have always had both the Start Menu and the actual locations categorized
like that, and kept copying the Start Menu over across Windows
installations.

In my case, the categories are;

Accessories (everyday tools & applets, further subcategorized into
Communications, System Tools, Multimedia etc.)
Emulation (my hefty collection of emulators and related stuff)
Games
Lab (development tools)
Workshop ("productivity" apps, like Office, CorelDraw etc.)

anything transcendental, like Encarta, the Command Prompt, and so on gets to
stay on the root


<Nicholas> wrote in message news:...
> So MS has done something to the programs folders at last huh?
>
> You know, Games is totally out of place in the Vista Start Menu:
>
> Documents (files)
> Pictures and Videos (files)
> Games (programs)
>
> Hey MS! Why didn't you go on!!!!???? You should've made:
>
> Games (programs)
> Office Productivity (programs)
> Educational Reference (programs)
> Creativity (programs)
> etc...
>
> So that we can finally ditch the 20 year-old folder system for grouping
> program shortcuts!
>
> You see the benefits of the Games folder... ALL GAMES IN ONE PLACE, isn't
> that neat and simple? I'm sure you didn't miss the days going through
> Start > All Programs > EA Games > Command & Conquer > Command & Conquer
> Generals...
>
> Now MS do us a favor, in Windows Vienna or whatever, next time, force all
> software publishers ISVs to adhere to CATEGORIES, plain and simple... 180
> million Windows users in the universe will thank you for that, I
> guarantee...
>

"I have always had both the Start Menu and the actual locations
categorized
like that, and kept copying the Start Menu over across Windows
installations.

In my case, the categories are;

Accessories (everyday tools & applets, further subcategorized into
Communications, System Tools, Multimedia etc.)
Emulation (my hefty collection of emulators and related stuff)
Games
Lab (development tools)
Workshop ("productivity" apps, like Office, CorelDraw etc.)

anything transcendental, like Encarta, the Command Prompt, and so on
gets to
stay on the root "

Yes, that's great! But it would be even better if MS forces all ISV to
adhere to some common "UI management" sense.

Regards

--
Nicholas...

"Overclock Your Life, Then The World"